August 25, 2010 / World News

Mets claim foul on Shabbat ruling

Reports saying that a judge ruled that the New York Mets’ ballpark must allow a kosher-food vendor to sell its products on the Jewish Sabbath “mischaracterize the court’s verbal ruling,” the team said. More...

CNN’s Zakaria returns ADL award

NY MOSQUE…

CNN host Fareed Zakaria has returned an award to the Anti- Defamation League over the group’s opposition to building a mosque near Ground Zero. Zakaria, also a Newsweek columnist, had received the Hubert H. More...

Muslim leaders meet survivors

WASHINGTON (JTA)— Eight Muslim American leaders who visited concentration camps and met with Holocaust survivors signed a statement condemning Holocaust denial and antisemitism. More...

Conservative Israeli siddur reaches for wide audience

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)— When Israel’s new Masorti prayer book hit No. 4 on the country’s best-seller list for non-fiction last January, no one was more surprised than members of the country’s still-tiny Conservative movement. More...

‘Giving Pledge’ could impact Jewish philanthropic world

NEW YORK—The philanthropic world got a happy jolt when 40 members of the world’s wealthy elite—including 13 Jews— announced that they would give away more than half their money before they died. More...

Harvard denies divesting from Israel

Harvard University said the sale of some of its investments in Israel was not politically motivated and it is not divesting from Israel. More...

Russia won’t return the rebbe’s library

Russia has refused to return a library of sacred documents to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. More...

Pre-med student becomes NFL squad’s first Jewish cheerleader

Texas two-step:

HOUSTON (JTA)—It’s a safe bet to assume that there are more Jewish doctors than NFL cheerleaders. Michelle Lewis, 21, is on the way to becoming both. More...